On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Lustig, Marc (Allianz Deutschland, externer Mitarbeiter) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok you're right, but if that's the only issue, then the second instance > simply could be started without Quartz. But then it's not a real fail-over > anymore. > An alternative strategy is to maintain only one instance, and cron-watching > it with a shell-script. Need to think about it...
I know there are monitoring systems like Nagios, but I'm not sure how far they go as far as failover. In any case you shouldn't have to implement this on your own, it has to be a solved problem by this point. :) I'm curious what problem are you seeing (or trying to avoid)? The standalone Continuum distribution runs in a JVM wrapper that notices if it hangs or dies, and re-starts it automatically. -- Wendy
